Bath Spa Books: October

Bath Spa Books: October

The ground strewn with crunchy leaves, a slight chill in the air, woolly jumpers, nights drawing in, pumpkin spice (or not)... it’s the perfect time to cosy up with a book! And our Bath Spa community is providing a bumper crop of great reads. 

Here are the latest additions that have made us #BathSpaProud:

Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community: Enabling Cross-Sector Environments for Postdigital Inclusion – Sarah Hayes, Professor of Education and Research Lead and Caroline Kuhn, Senior Lecturer in Education and Technology Enhanced Learning 

Sarah Hayes is co-editor and Caroline Kuhn has contributed a chapter to this book which explores data, skills and disadvantage in people’s individual post digital lives. 

The Blackout – Sarah Goodwin, MA Creative Writing 

Summer, 2022. When Meg and Cat take a dangerous shortcut home one night, they notice two men silently following them. Suddenly running for their lives, they scramble into an abandoned building to hide and wait for help... 

Sing If You Can’t Dance – Alexia Casale, Course Leader for MA Writing for Young People 

After aspiring dancer Ven collapses during the performance of her life, she discovers she has a condition that means a career in dancing isn't an option - even walking is going to be a challenge. Determined that if she can't dance she'll sing, Ven decides to whip her hopeless high school choir into shape while she figures out her big new dream. The choir on the other hand isn't as receptive to Ven's world-domination tendencies as she was hoping... 

The Hyenas are Silent – Suzie Lockhart-Smith, MA Creative Writing 

Sent away to school in Kenya’s Rift Valley at four years old, Tanzie misses her aloof, glamorous, gin-drinking mother, who never seems able to love her enough. Bereft, she fights with her fellow pupils and, later, at a convent boarding school in England, with the nuns she both despises and adores. Told through linked short stories, Tanzie’s coloured-in life leaps across decades and continents and is in turns alarming, reckless, funny and poignant. 

Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas – Eleanor Barraclough, Lecturer in Environmental History  

The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond; north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. Beyond the Northlands explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. 

Girls of Little Hope  – Sam Beckbessinger, Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing 

A chilling and eerie tale of monsters, teen angst and small-town America for fans of Stranger Things, The Thing, and the 1990s. Three girls went into the woods. Only two came back, covered in blood and with no memory of what happened. Or did they? 

How to Wild Swim: What to Know Before Taking the Plunge – Ella Foote, BA Creative Writing and Media Communications 

Whether you want to explore remote beaches and mountain lochs, improve your confidence in open water, refine your swimming technique, or have a race or long-distance swim challenge coming up, How to Wild Swim offers the perfect practical foundation to help you find your perfect adventure and achieve your goal. 

Do you have a story to tell? Our Creative Writing courses can help you find your voice and take your writing to the next level.